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Number of executions each year by the method used in the United States and the earlier colonies from 1608 to 2004. The category other includes burning, gibbetting, bludgeoning, breaking on the wheel, hung in chains, and those for which a method is not known.

All data before 1977, is from the "Espy File" compiled by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smylka, and was made available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (1994). After 1977, the data comes from Death Penalty Information Center.

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